Fake Holocaust Claims Affect Brighton Beach Residents

An Associated Press story reports that the arrest of 17 people on charges of fraudulent Holocaust survival stories has cost some residents of Brighton Beach and other parts of Brooklyn access to benefits paid by a nonprofit group.  They must  “either appeal or repay tens of thousands of dollars,” to the Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, which is still investigating the fraud, according to the article. Federal prosecutors in the case have uncovered more than 5,500 fraudulent claims, which include altered birth records and fake survival stories.